Agnew v. Coleman County Electric Cooperative

272 S.W.2d 877 (1954)

Hoyt L. AGNEW, Petitioner,

v.

COLEMAN COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, Inc., Respondent.

No. A-4572.

Supreme Court of Texas.

November 24, 1954.

Bob Huff, J. H. Splawn, Jr., Ted Odom, Lubbock, for petitioner.

Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Miller & Martin, W. M. Taylor, Jr., Dallas, for respondent.

GRIFFIN, Justice.

This cause is a suit for damages filed by petitioner as plaintiff against respondent as defendant. Plaintiff alleged certain acts of negligence on the part of the driver of a truck belonging to defendant, and being at the time of the collision operated in the business of the…